My Thanksgiving Was Perfect Because….

   

I get to be her mother.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving….or weekend if you don’t celebrate.

No Take Backs

I'm pregnant.

Like for real for real.

I think it kinda hits me at the weirdest times.

I realized last night in the car that I am basically starting over.

Lael has just reached the point where she is almost self sufficient.

She showers on her own, dresses herself, gets in the car and buckled unassisted.  I'm just there just in case.

You know, in case she needs me to "help" her be a big girl.  But rarely am I needed.

That will all change soon.

It will no longer be me and Lael throwing on clothes to run out on a Saturday morning to garage sale shop, or hit up the store.  Everything will be a process now.

Lael has always been a good sleeper.  Sleeping in is her THING.

On a weekend she can easily sleep in till 1030 or 11 if I let her.

That will all change soon.

What was I thinking.  I will have a crying, pooping little thing all over again.

And guess what.  It is done.

There are no take backs......

Not that I want to or anything.

Wow. What did I get myself into?

Parent Fail

I don't even know where to begin.

I don't know if it's because she's sensitive or if there's more to the story but just like anybody else she has boiling point.

And she reached that point yesterday.

Remember the beginning of last month I told yall about her "friend" bothering her on the bus?

Well since then her and the girl had been doing better.

However, she had mentioned to me another little boy and another girl and her younger brother messing around with each other on the bus.

The one little boy stuck out.  She constantly had stories of things that he was doing but I didn't really pick up on it.

Because of the baby and school I think I brushed it off as kids just being kids.  I didn't realize how much it was bothering Lael.

That is until yesterday.

I get a call from my husband yesterday saying that Lael smacked this little boy in the face and bit him on the back.

HOLYMOTHEROFALLTHINGSCRAZY!!

No.Freakin'.Way.

Yup.  It did happen.  Apparently the boy has really been picking on her and she had had enough.

The story goes like this. (Remember this is the 6yr old version)

Lael was napping on the bus when the little boy got in trouble and was told to move to a seat next to her.

The other little girl pulled Lael's shoe off and her younger brother began pulling her tights.

Lael sat up and demanded her shoe back.  The kids passes blame to one another until Lael yelled for them to give her the shoe back.

The kids laughed and the one boy said "I saw your underwear" and then the girl threw her shoe and it hit Lael in the head.

The boy then laughed and said "That was a good one."  At this point Lael turned to him and smacked him and then proceeded to try to take a chunk out of his back.

The boy supposedly moved seats and continued to say rude things at Lael.

The only way the bus coordinator found out about it was because the other kids told.  He wasn't upset or crying.

However, she had to do her job which was call us and the boys mom.

She then comes in sobbing about how her child is the victim.

I am speachless. I am literally sick to my stomach.

I could have avoided this by putting in a complaint the first time and then putting in another one when she told me this boy was bothering her.

It's just hard.  How do you differentiate kids playing around and them pickin on each other.

This led to a bigger mess.  Me and hubby argued about it because I never told him about the boy bothering her.

Now I have to go to the Youth Office and view the video tapes (yes they have cameras on the buses) with Lael and any other parents who's kids are involved this evening.

I feel so guilty.  Did she feel she had no other choice.  What am I to do?

Yeah. Happy Frickin' Friday. Ugh.

Now All I Have Left Is This Blog...and Twitter

I loved the idea of having a Blog, and Facebook, and Twitter.

It was my outlet.  I could bash my hubby and he never knew.  He didn't read my blog.  He didn't have a Facebook account and could care less about Twitter.

What my husband does love is his X-Box.  And guess what X-Box has now.  Facebook.  And guess who now has a Facebook page.

Yeah.  And guess who sent his MOTHER a Facebook request and guess who created an account also and sent ME a friend request.

So no more crazy crap.  I now have my husband and Mother-in-Law to stalk me and all of my updates on Facebook.

What is this world coming to.

I guess my updates weren't really that special to begin with. 

What Do I Do?

Guess what came on Friday?

Go on guess. 

Ok, I'll give you a hint. It ryhmes with Resort Card.

LOL! Ok, so Lael got her Report Card.

I was excited when I first opened it up.  To see how well my little genious was doing.

As I began to read it my smile slowly faded.

In her school/grade they don't get grade letters yet.  Instead they get a B=Beginning D=Developing S=Secure and for some things they got I=Independtly L=Limited Prompting F=Frequent Prompting.

Apparently Lael isn't doing as hot as I thought.  She got most ALL Beginnings on her tasks (even though I know beyond a doubt she can do more than it says) and it's seems she need a lot of Frequent Prompting for tasks.

At the end of the report card there was a note from her teacher.  It starts off by stating that Lael is a sweet child.

That was just a setup for what was to follow.

She says that Lael is often laid back and lounging in her chair.  She complains of being tired, and does not participate or seem excited about anything and that she often has to have thing re-explained to her after rest of the class is already doint their work and is very fidgity.

WTF!

My heart dropped.  I went back through the report card and it showed that Lael has trouble finishing classwork on time, listening while others are talking, and doesn't participate.  She does work well with others and seems to know that work but shows no motivation.

Ugh!

It has been really bothering me for the past few days.  Did I do something wrong?  Does Lael watch too much TV and not enough reading?  Did I make a mistake by sending her to a new school?  Did I make a mistake by letting her start early?  Is she mature enough to be in the 1st grade or should I have let her stay back in Kindergarten?

So many questions.

I do know that a lot of the information is new to her.  Going from K to 1st is a big change. 

I wasn't completely surprised though.  Lael does have a bit of trouble concentrating and following directions at home.

I can look her right in the eye and give her directions and she will walk away and then come back and say "Wait, what did you say?"  It has been a big deal at home and me and hubby have been on her about it.

I have had to repeat myself multiple times at home which is frustrating for me so I can imagine how her teacher may feel.

I have started to put her to bed at 8pm and last night decided to try 7:30.  It seemed to work fine.  Maybe 10hrs wasn't enough for her so maybe 11 will help.

I just don't know.

Me and Little Miss had a long talk and she said that she has questions in her head but she just doesn't like to ask because she doesn't like everybody looking at her.

We are working on it but I am shook.

I don't want her to fall behind.  This is the little girl who walked at 9 months, read at 3, she is capable.  I just need to give her the right tools.

At Least I Had An Excuse To Not Speak To People

We have 3 bathrooms in our house.

We have lived in this house, with the 3 bathrooms, for 6 years.

I get up for work the same time every most mornings.

I leave to catch my shuttle the same time every most mornings.

Me and Lael brush our teeth and primp ourselves in the same bathroom EVERY time.

So is there any particular reason you thought that why we were getting ready this morning you would go in said bathroom and proceed to take a dump?

Was there a need to threaten my toothbrushes life when I pounded on the door and demanded my deodarant?

Tough decisions had to be made.  I had to decide if I could afford to wait for you to finish and for the fumes to die or to go to work without brushing my teeth and deodarant on.

Yeah. Well.  Good thing I keep things like that in my locker at work.

I sure needed them today.

Let's not let that happen again hubby, m'kay?

Let Me Bring Back The Positive (Kinda)

Whew!

My blog has been a bit of a downer lately hasn't it?

I'm totally over THAT! I'm fine. Baby's fine. Lael's fine. We're all just fine.

While at the doctor's Tuesday they took a look at the baby's bottom to find out the sex...









And it's totally too soon and they could only see it's little butt.  Nice try though.  I go back Dec. 11th and they will try try again!

Lael's been doing really great in school.  She is telling time (well only whole hours) and counting money (well nickels and pennies so far) but still great!

So remember when I mentioned those potty words she knows? Yeah, so last weekend I went to get my hair done and she played with my girlfriends kids that are around her age.

They played great until the end.  They got to fighting and came to me and said that Lael had used a bad word.  I doubted is was anything that serious.  Lael looked at me and said that they had called her game stupid.

I asked her what she then said and she said she didn't remember.

After the girls left the room I prompted her again for her word and she said "Well all I said was what the f!*k, but it just slipped out because they kept calling my game stupid!"

Seriously.Can't.Tell.You.How.Mortified.I.Was.

My girlfriend thought it was hilarious and her mom ran to the bathroom to preven peeing herself.  Lael just cried because she was embarrassed.

We spoke about it being inappropriate AGAIN but I have a feeling it will peek it's head again.

So then a few days later we are out looking at baby stuff....you know just browsing.

Lael says "Well I sure hope it's a boy.  And when I change his diapers I'll get to see his nuts."

Yup.

I have nothing else to say.  I just think she should stop talking all together.  I just can't take it anymore.